slow sudo /bin/su response

[Andrew Farris]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Hey all,
> I have a little issue with login from a normal user to root being very 
> slow when I use sudo.  When I do not use sudo its very quick.
> 
>  > sudo /bin/su -
> (20-30 second delay before login)
> 
>  > /bin/su -
> (2-4 second delay)
> 
> This has been a problem for the last 3 days I think; it definitely is 
> not just a random cpu load issue or something like that.  The machine is 
> a VMware guest on a core 2 duo macbook.  I don't have this happening on 
> my desktop.

Sorry both of these machines are sync'd up rawhide, I didn't mention that.  It 
looks like consolekit and policykit are involved when sudo is used, though I 
haven't figured out yet which processes are running (something like polkit-read?)

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